Abstract
For a fixed nonnegative integer u and positive integer n, we investigate the symmetric function ∑d|n(cd([Formula Presented]))upd[Formula Presented], where pn denotes the nth power sum symmetric function, and cd(r) is a Ramanujan sum, equal to the sum of the rth powers of all the primitive dth roots of unity. We establish the Schur positivity of these functions for u=0 and u=1, showing that, in each case, the associated representation of the symmetric group Sn decomposes into a sum of Foulkes representations, that is, representations induced from the irreducibles of the cyclic subgroup generated by the long cycle. We also conjecture Schur positivity for the case u=2.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 107575 |
| Journal | Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra |
| Volume | 228 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2024 |
Keywords
- Arithmetic function
- Foulkes representation
- Power sum
- Ramanujan sum
- Schur positivity
- von Sterneck function
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